Two brothers are thought to have been fatally struck by lightning while heating up a sauna near a summer cottage in eastern Finland.
The siblings, born in 1950 and 1953, arrived with their sister at the cottage in Juuka, a community of 3200 in the Northern Karelia region, late on Friday and went out to heat up the sauna when a very loud bang was heard.
The woman ran out of the cottage to find her brothers on the ground.
A nearby spruce tree was also damaged.
Police suspect the lightning struck the tree and then its powerful electric charge was conducted into the men's bodies by the wet soil.
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